Think you know literature? See if you recognize these famous first lines

From Edward George Bulwer-Lytton's, "It was a dark and stormy night," to the immortal beginning of Charles Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities" — "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" — the opening of a novel provides a chance for an author to make a powerful first impression on the reader.

Here's a look at the first sentence — and only the first sentence — of some of the greatest stories ever written. See how many you recognize.

Didn't do well on this quiz. Mainly I became preoccupied with the growing
list of books four at a time for 60 questions. I consider reading to be one of
my favorite things to do, I have been reading avidly for about 46 years, and
would consider myself a well read person. So presented with this list of
approximately (there were a few repeats) 120 books, most of whose titles I
recognize, found that I have read only 15 of them. Book lists always bug me
this way.

"A small dusty man in a small dusty room. That's how I always thought
of him, just a small dusty man in a small dusty room." Yeah, it's two
lines with the period inserted; but one of my favorite memorable lines from a
book read 40 years ago.